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Originally posted by MrPanama
I didnt generate any fake refs, they were all ligit...I just used some stupid auto surfer so I didnt have to surf those 30 hours a month to get my referral cash....I was stupid, and they caught me on it....but I didnt scam them for any money, other than the measily 50 cents per hour for personal surfing.
I met with the CEO of AA when my account was being anylized and they didnt go bankrupt from cheaters, they learnt how to catch the cheaters...they went bankrupt because of the internet advertising crash......invistors put $96 million into AA, and it was paying its members $9 million a month, while it was only generating $1.2 million a month from ad sales....you do the math...
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Yeah, AllAdvantage did go under right when the Internet Ad Industry crashed. They tried to save the company by switching it's payout scheme, but lotteries just don't work that way. I don't believe them that they didn't lose out to some cheaters. They were definiately part of the problem. They have no idea how easy it is to make a program that fakes surfing, and I know they didn't catch them all. But, the biggest deal is that they missed out on some great opportunities to raise the amount of ad clicks, though. Take a look at Norton Internet Security - they block a lot of webpage ads. Had the AllAdvantage program done that, so they were always the ONLY ad on the screen, then they could have captilized on this a lot more. Another thing is that their programmers sucked... the internet explorer bar had to be the one that was in focus to get paid, yet they had their stupid program bar in the list of programs when you Alt-Tab. Why? If it's in focus, you don't get paid. It is never supposed to be in focus. And it had an annoying feature (to stop cheaters from hiding the ad bar with another window) to regain focus above all other windows besides for internet explorer, which means if you are messing between two files (which lots of people do), you can't alt-tab back and forth. The god damn ad bar would get in the way, but only sometimes. No one could stop the ad industry from crashing single handedly, but they could have improved their software big time to make the crash not hurt so badly.